Friday, January 17, 2014

The Next Generation in the Kitchen

Joy's Counter

Today for breakfast we're having baked applies in the crockpot.  They are already ready, and I will just have to serve them after the baby finishes nursing.  What is really great is that I didn't have to make them.  My eldest daughter prepared them last night while I made some cornbread.  It is great having a helper.  But I wouldn't have one if I hadn't spent time with her when she was younger.  Lots of time in weeks, months, years with her alongside me in the kitchen.  Teaching her how to pour, measure, read a recipe, then later on cut and use the kitchen appliances.  When she was younger she wasn't as much help, and it actually took me longer because I was teaching as I prepared our family's meals.  I would have to wait as she helped pour in ingredients or stirred in her little girl way.  But now she is a big help.  She can cook entire meals by herself.  And one day she is very much looking forward to being a wife and mommy and running her own household.  I think she will do a good job.  I feel so blessed to be able to prepare her to raise the next generation!

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. ~Galatians 6:9

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8 comments:

  1. It is wonderful to have a helper in the kitchen. I do not have daughters so my sons use to do things like that for me. Now my eldest does it for his wife and spoils her with wonderful meals.

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    1. I bet your son's wife is very spoiled! That is a blessing.

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  2. How old is your eldest daughter? This is wonderful. I know it takes longer while training, and I failed in just wanting to do the work myself many times. But with words like these you have said here, I began to be more patient and both of my adult daughters are great kitchen workers. I wish they had known when they were say, 13. My youngest is 13 and she's not there yet. But, it's not too late. Thank you for these words.

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    1. She is 11. You're right, it's not too late! You are welcome.

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  3. Anytime I was baking I'd have the girls around the table taking turns, from the littlest one to the oldest. I sometimes have the older girls chop vegetables for dinner. They have made me breakfast when I was pregnant with my last baby. It's nice to have daughters that are happy to help. My oldest daughter wants a career and the rest say they want to get married.

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    1. It is a blessing to have daughters around the house to help.

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  4. Older children are wonderful. Period. My daughter was not at all inclined to learn domestic things, she really wasn't interested, but she is such a dear, good friend and cooks like anything now (at 27!!!) ...my point being that, as they become young women /men our youngsters enter a whole different kind of worth and loveableness...even if not very practical! You'll enjoy it even more if able to share companionship AND chores!
    (btw my daughter is a couple of weeks off becoming a (very USEFUL) qualified nurse.

    Baked apples, and cornbread both sound wholesome and absolutely delicious!
    Happy days!

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    1. Each stage with children is different. I love every one, even though they have their trials.

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